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I'm not in a hackintosh anymore (I was a hackintosh user a few years ago), I'm using an imac (Ati Radeon HD4850) and I wonder if someone around the community knows if there's a way of faking the system in believing it's a HD 4870 and make it use it's 10-bit framebuffer.

I've been able to fake the graphic card ID of my HD 4850 (944A) to use 9440 (which is the HD ATI 4870, one of the few 10-bit supported cards under mac os x) using Clover bootloader on a usb and booting the iMac from it, and tried to force "MotMot" framebuffer (which apparently it's the framebuffer the 4870 use). But it doesn't work. It always load "Quail" framebuffer, which is tied to the 4850 on an imac, verified with "grep | ATY".

I've tried inject in the config.plist and also using a custom DSDT. In system profiler the ID has changed to 9440, but using gpusniffer, it reveals that it's using the 4850 opengl engine, so I suspect that this is only a "cosmetic" change, and not a real one. Or I'm failing somewhere in doing it right

BTW:

- 9440 and 944A are both in the AMD4800Controller.kext, but they are supposed to use different framebuffers. The 9440 "MotMot" and the 944A "Quail".

- Tried on Snow Leopard and Mavericks.

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I'm not in a hackintosh anymore (I was a hackintosh user a few years ago), I'm using an imac (Ati Radeon HD4850) and I wonder if someone around the community knows if there's a way of faking the system in believing it's a HD 4870 and make it use it's 10-bit framebuffer.

I've been able to fake the graphic card ID of my HD 4850 (944A) to use 9440 (which is the HD ATI 4870, one of the few 10-bit supported cards under mac os x) using Clover bootloader on a usb and booting the iMac from it, and tried to force "MotMot" framebuffer (which apparently it's the framebuffer the 4870 use). But it doesn't work. It always load "Quail" framebuffer, which is tied to the 4850 on an imac, verified with "grep | ATY".

I've tried inject in the config.plist and also using a custom DSDT. In system profiler the ID has changed to 9440, but using gpusniffer, it reveals that it's using the 4850 opengl engine, so I suspect that this is only a "cosmetic" change, and not a real one. Or I'm failing somewhere in doing it right

BTW:

- 9440 and 944A are both in the AMD4800Controller.kext, but they are supposed to use different framebuffers. The 9440 "MotMot" and the 944A "Quail".

- Tried on Snow Leopard and Mavericks.

It will be fine if you illustrate your words with DarwinDumper report in the wrong situation.

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I have many PC's some legacy some newer with sandy bridge and ivy bridge, no haswell boards as of yet. I have all DSDT already patched back in the days when MaLd0n was pumping out DSDT's left and right. Can I use this DSDT if I switch to clover or will I need to do a fresh vanilla DSDT extract and patch accordingly for clover?

Thanks

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I have many PC's some legacy some newer with sandy bridge and ivy bridge, no haswell boards as of yet. I have all DSDT already patched back in the days when Mal0n was pumping out DSDT's left and right. Can I use this DSDT if I switch to clover or will I need to do a fresh vanilla DSDT extract and patch accordingly for clover?

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i installed Clover rev 2689 under ML 10.8.5 and now my Nvidia card is no more shown in the System-Profiler under PCI-Cards. (GT 610) (Two entries in the past NVDA, Display-Controller…) Is this a normal behavior? Thanks.

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i installed Clover rev 2689 under ML 10.8.5 and now my Nvidia card is no more shown in the System-Profiler under PCI-Cards. (GT 610) (Two entries in the past NVDA, Display-Controller…) Is this a normal behavior? Thanks.

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If any of you have had problems using Clover boot loader to load the ESP with a working Clover copy --- the latest v2689 now does that !!!!

When I ran 2689 on a GUID formatted disk for MacOSX, I used the Custom button to install it into the ESP, which for me had never worked before. I am happy to report it almost worked perfectly for me. It loaded 2 files -boot and EFI into the EFI partiton of the disk drive and loaded 3 others usr, Library and EFI-backups onto the root of the HFS partition. The loader mounted the EFI partition and I moved the 3 files into the EFI partition.

That was a MAJOR victory in my quest to use Clover as my boot loader of choice.

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Hi. I'm new to Clover, just gave it a go for the first time in an attempt to get Yosemite running on my rig. I created a 40GB partition and also created a USB installer with Clover on it in order to boot the new OS.

I made it through installation ok, albeit a few small hiccups.

The problem I'm having now is that I can't successfully boot the OS. Right before I should get to the GUI, my system must reboots. My hardware is listed in my sig, I'm installing on the intel rig. And here is a pastebin of the logs for the unsuccessful boot: http://pastebin.com/zjnBtHvy

Please let me know if there is anything anyone sees that stands out as odd, or if I need to provide any other info. Thanks in advance!

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I honestly have no idea. Not usually the guy who doesn't know what he's doing lol so this is new to me, thanks for your reply. I'll upload the config.plist as soon as I get back into Mavs. Gimme a few minutes.

I should mention that I have also tried installing Clover to the new partition that I created, but I get a "boot1" error from there, so I have just been trying to boot off the USB.

Update: updated WhateverGreen and Lilu, then updated OS to 10.14.3 and everything is fine! Even iMessage, which previously I hadn't been able to make work, is now working - possibly the update flushed the NVRAM?

I'm gonna come straight out and admit it - I used newb tools which are considered taboo on InsanelyMac, and so this isn't so much an installation guide as it is a green flag to anyone considering the same hardware. My first and previous Hackintosh project was just over ten years ago and this site was massively helpful, so this is my (very small) way of giving back.

ADVICE
With the Clover configuration, you want to pay close attention to all things relating to graphics. There are some specific settings for ACPI, Boot, Devices and Graphics which should be copied exactly in order to get the iGPU and dGPU to work in perfect harmony. For instance, make sure you use ig-platform-id 59120003 rather than 59120000 if you want FCPX to be usable. With the right settings, FCPX will not only run, but run flawlessly.

I was not able to figure out how to make NVRAM/PRAM behave itself, and I got errors when I tried to issue relevant commands. As a result, I could not at first get iMessage to work properly. It worked once on my first installation attempt but not from subsequent attempts. This Clover configuration therefore has no consideration whatsoever toward iMessage reliability - however, iMessage ended up working somehow, anyway - I noticed it after I'd updated to 10.14.3 but this may just have been coincidence.

Onboard WiFi does not work. There is no driver for it. I'm using wired ethernet to a bridge router as it was cheaper than getting a compatible PCI card.

Audio is working well after I installed the z370 audio patch, then the ALC1220 codecs, then AppleALC.

With kexts for generic 3rd party SATA and generic 3rd party eSATA, my HDDs and DVD drive work perfectly well.

My USB 3 ports seem to suffer from low power output, and I don't know why.

Overall, this system appears to run about as well under MacOS 10.14 Mojave as it does under Windows 7. I would solidly recommend this build to anyone looking to build a computer for workstation purposes, on a budget.

Good morning, everyone, I'm sorry if I was wrong in choosing the topic but I need help.I have found it extremely difficult to mount a Hackintosh in my acer.Setup;I5 2430m 2.4
6GB RAMMobo P5we0 - Intel
intel Graphics 3000At the moment I have not found out what my audio codecs are.but I'll leave the link on the motherboard.however, my real problem is several.I have already used the itakos image, I have already used several images that could be installed normally and that after installing the image I do not have internet via cable or wireless.And another, I already looked in other forums and I know that I will be called a donkey in the logical question but I have not been able to install the [url=&quot;http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/&quot;]#####[/url] or clover to start from the Hard Disk, so I do not know what to do.At the moment I still do not know if there has already been someone who has already installed the High Sierra or just the Sierra in this notebook model and obtained permanent success.
If anyone can help me, I'll be grateful.
Installations without success, but with the system already installed in ACER;
SIERRA
HIGH SIERRA
MOJAVE
All with the same symptom. Starting only by the bootable USB stick and without internet connection via cable and wireless.
Appreciate !
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Since rev 4844 Vector Themes are supported and there are ready-to-use Clovy by Clovy, cesium by Slice and BGM_SVG by Blackosx.
You may see it's structure to create own theme
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Now I want to add vector graphics support in Clover. See rev 4560 and later.
It is not working yet but designers may begin to create Vector Themes.
It supposed to consist of SVG elements and has design size. It will be rendered to any screen size scaled from design size.

What application in macOS can create SVG graphics?
Inkscape is not working in macOS 10.11+. Pity.
LibreOffice Draw works with SVG but buggy.
Boxy SVG cost 10$ but looks good enough. It creates the best in simplicity files and have more then enough features.
Illustrator is good but expensive.

How to improve SVG file?
Clover has restricted support for SVG. It is your job to make compatible file and as small as possible to speedup rendering.
Some helps:
Help:Inkscape – From invalid to valid SVG Inkscape files
From invalid to valid SVG Adobe Illustrator files
From invalid to valid SVG files of other editors: BKchem, ChemDraw and CorelDRAW
Help:Illustrator – Assistance with creating and saving SVG images in Adobe Illustrator that will pass W3C validation
User:Quibik/Cleaning up SVG files manually
Later I will write own instructions specific to Clover abilities.

How to create SVG fonts?
You can google to find ready-to-use SVG fonts. I found some problems with too beaty fonts: slow rendering and overflow crash. Be careful.
You can get ttf or otf fonts and convert them into svg by using online WEB services. Not a problem to google.
But then I want to find a way to simplify the font to reduce a size and speedup rendering.
You can create own font by FontForge It is opensource and available for Windows, Mac and GNU+Linux. It creates otf font which you can convert to svg font.